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from Chapter 5 / Lesson 11 84K The Modigliani-Miller Theory was devised under assumptions that do not exist in real life. Learn about the importance of propositions I and II and how corporate taxes change the value of a firm and expected returns. Related to this QuestionWhy...
But in the Agra shoe trade two unique problems exist that must be overcome. Firstly, how do traders signal a credible commitment to the shoemakers? In other words, what happens if the trader refuses to pay the shoemaker after 3 months? Secondly, typically trade credit is offered by someone ...
Why does inflation exist? Why would it be bad to have less consumerism? Why do governments apply price ceiling and price floors if it causes disequilibrium? Explain why a typical worker decides to spend more hours working when the wages are high. Why doesn't the worker experi...
The beauty of the model was that the Levitts (and subsequent tract housing developers) could avoid labor unions by hiring general workers and training them specifically. It also guarded against the high turnover of construction work, as no person had too much "institutional knowledge" and was...
Howard Kimeldorf, "Bringing Unions Back In (or Why We Need a New Old Labor History)," Labor History, 32, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 91-103, followed by responses from Michael Kazin, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, Bruce Nelson, Daniel Nelson, 104-29. See also the roundtable ...
The other misperception is that unions only exist to argue against management, including against colleagues who are also part of the management structure, says Higgins. "Some doctors perceive being in a union as 'how can those same leaders also be in a union,'" she says. She feels that the...
would do as much to defend the First Amendment as reshape it. After all, a ruling against the unions in this instance will not mean public employees can no longer join unions. It will simply mean that, like AARP, public worker unions will have to persuade the people that they want to ...
more rural and male — won’t budge. The Democratic Party of the 1990s simply ignored its old base and became New Democrats, spearheading a North American Free Trade Act (to the chagrin of organized labor), performance standards in classrooms (resisted by teachers’ unions) and welfare reform...
If major unions were able to get wage increases to about 5%, it would be enough to satisfy the BOJ that wages are rising and prompt them to shift monetary policy, Thierry Wizman, global interest rates and currencies strategist at Macquarie Group, told CNBC Monday. ...